Alfonso Vagnone’s Tongyou Jiaoyu (On the Education of Children, c. 1632)

Giulia Falato, Ph.D. (2017), Sapienza University of Rome, works as a Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Oxford. She has published a number of articles in Italian and international journals, including the International Communication of Chinese Culture (Springer).

'This volume by Giulia Falato is admirable in terms of clarity, structure, extension, and precision, and it definitely succeeds in highlighting Alfonso Vagnone’s contribution to the history of the transmission of ideas and cultural relations between China and Europe. Moreover, this valuable work will hopefully pave the way to further stylistic, lexical, structural, and exegetical analysis of the other works by Vagnone, who was a very prolific author of Chinese works, many of which were written in the same period as Tongyou jiaoyu.' Emanuele Raini, Università degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale, Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu, vol. xc, fasc. 180 (2021-II).